Evoto Brings AI Culling and Cloud Spaces to Desktop, Unveils Mobile App and Powerful Video Retouching Tool

Evoto hosts its first-ever US product launch event showcasing a range of new products and features for photographers and videographers 

NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Evoto AI, the company behind innovative software solutions that streamline the workflows of professional photographers worldwide, hosted its first-ever brand event, Evoto One. There, Evoto debuted a new range of AI-powered products and features for digital creatives that cover more parts of their workflow in a single platform while expanding into new audiences with mobile and video solutions.

Evoto debuted Evoto Desktop 6.0, the latest version of its flagship software. The update introduces powerful capabilities like AI Culling, which accelerates the photo selection process; Cloud Spaces, enabling seamless project syncing across devices and teams; Evoto Instant, a complete mobile workflow for event and wedding photographers; and Evoto Video, a professional-grade video retouching and color correction solution powered by AI.

Fueled by proprietary AI algorithms and advanced machine learning and rendering capabilities, Evoto customers can now manage more of their workflow across devices and teams. Evoto is also expanding its offerings to support a broader range of visual storytellers, whether its photographers moving into multimedia and short form video, or bringing industry-leading retouching capabilities to video professionals for the first time.

"Our goal at Evoto has been to empower digital creatives with AI-powered tools that provide finer control and speed without compromising authenticity and emotion," said Evoto US Sales Director, Jay Peterson. "Our customers asked us to build capabilities that cover more of their workflow and meet their evolving needs. Today's announcements deliver on that promise with a comprehensive suite of new features, including AI Culling and Cloud Spaces to enhance our Desktop experience, while adding new products in Evoto Instant and Evoto Video that expand our offerings and reach even more creatives."

Expanded Workflow Capabilities with Evoto Desktop 6.0
Evoto's flagship desktop software has been elevated to its most powerful version yet, bringing a suite of advanced features. Fully meeting many of the asks of our customers, Evoto Desktop version 6.0 includes flagship features such as:

• AI Culling: New culling capabilities powered by advanced AI algorithms, give photographers a quick way to filter and select the images that they need to retouch and share with clients. With issue detection, smart grouping, top pick recommendations, and fully-customizable settings, Evoto is empowering photographers with new tools to help them optimize their time and talent.
  
  
• Cloud Spaces: Cloud Spaces connects devices and team members under one Evoto account, keeping edits, tags, effects, and metadata synced in real time without repeated exports. With My Space, users can manage projects and work across multiple instances of Evoto Desktop on a desktop or laptop, while Team Space allows Evoto enterprise customers to collaborate on projects across users and devices.
  
  
• New Tethering Capabilities: Wireless tethering, real-time live view, and secondary display support add flexibility and convenience to the live shooting and photo import experience. Evoto supports over 1,000 camera models for tethering.
  
  
• AI Color Enhancements: Fully-customizable sliders for color enhancements provide even more precision to photographers. New instant response features like auto masks, auto white balance, auto exposure, and scene enhancement add increased convenience and efficiency.
  
  
• AI Transform: Simplifies complex edits with the ability to correct perspective distortion and adjust scale, skew, rotation, and alignment. Provides precise control over image geometry, balance, and composition.
  
  
• Background Adjustment Enhancements: Automatic detection and removal of color spill in indoor environments, helping to restore accurate colors and enhance the overall image quality.
  
  
• Portrait Retouching Enhancements: New controls to enhance hands, backgrounds, clothing, and facial skin for wider age groups. Nasal, cheek, and perioral wrinkle removal has been added for face enhancement, as has the ability to retouch body blemishes on infants. Specialized dodge & burn functionality for a subject's hands is also new.
  
  
• Gallery Improvements: Project Review has been enhanced to offer a smoother, more pleasant experience while improving usability. New Project Groups offers a more efficient and visual organization of projects.
  
  
• Simpler File Management: New customizable display settings are available in the Library panel, and image thumbnails allow users to create a more tailored workspace. The ability to add collections to the library is also new, making it easy to group selected images across different projects.

Evoto Desktop is free to download on macOS and Windows. All users gain free access to AI culling features and the full functionality of secondary screen tethered shooting for a limited time starting today. Cloud Spaces is available in beta beginning today upon request, and will launch for all users later in the fall. Learn more about Evoto Desktop 6.0 at evoto.ai.

Professional Workflow in Your Pocket with Evoto Instant
Evoto Instant is a groundbreaking new product that brings a curated set of features from Evoto Desktop to iPhone and Android smartphones. Ideal for events, weddings, and other high-volume use cases, photographers can tether to their smartphone directly or wirelessly, for quick photo upload, automatic culling and edits, and photo sharing from anywhere. New facial recognition and sharing capabilities allow for smart organization and real-time sharing. Evoto Instant also offers a cloud-based workspace that can be accessed from any browser, giving photographers another place where they can set up a new project and presets.

The full list of Evoto Instant features include: 

• Tethering: Direct camera-to-phone connectivity, with wired and wireless tethering options, enabling flexible on-site shooting and photo upload. Support for over 1,000 camera models from top brands. Support for manual and automatic upload.
  
  
• AI Culling: With AI Culling turned on, every captured and uploaded photo is automatically analyzed and tagged based on a simple set of criteria. These include Closed eyes, blur, underexposure, overexposure, and duplicates.
  
  
• Presets & Retouching: Users can add presets to a project set up via the app or on the web interface. Edits are automatically applied to all images in the project. Manual fine-tuning is available for individual photos, which will override the project preset.
  
  
• Live Preview: Real-time preview during live shooting gives photographers a powerful new way to take inventory of their work and share it with clients.
  
  
• Gallery Branding & Watermarks: Simple customization and branding tools to bring professional-level polish to any project. Watermarks can be applied to a photo, with the ability to switch between light and dark preview modes to check visibility.
  
  
• Face Filtering & Interact: Advanced facial recognition identifies specific faces across a large collection of photos and groups them for easy sharing with individual guests or clients – all done in a new interact tab.
  
  
• Find Me: Allows guests to quickly locate their own photos within a gallery by taking a selfie and having the app filter only the photos featuring their face. Selfies are only used by the AI to deliver the personalized gallery and then deleted.

Evoto Instant is free to download from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. The app comes with 6GB of complimentary storage. All features are available at no cost through November. Existing Evoto users can simply sign in to their accounts and have access to their presets and credits. New users can purchase credits at www.evoto.ai. Learn more about Evoto Instant at instant.evoto.ai

Expanding into Cinematic AI Retouching with Evoto Video
Evoto made its name in portrait retouching, and now it's taking on video. Evoto Video is a professional-grade tool designed to bring cinematic-level portrait retouching and color enhancements to video professionals and photographers doing multimedia work. Leveraging the same advanced AI and rendering capabilities that power Evoto Desktop, Evoto Video can be used independently or as a supplement to existing workflows. Evoto Video is ideal for wedding videographers, filmmakers, music video and TV productions, short-form video studios, and creatives in the advertising, ecommerce, and fashion and beauty industries.

Evoto Video's core features include:

• Portrait Retouching: AI-powered features include skin cleanup (removal of acne, dark circles, and smile lines), advanced smoothing (dodge & burn and sculpting tools), facial adjustments (eye, facial reshape, and teeth whitening), and complexion consistency.
  
  
• AI-Powered Color Matching: Transfers the color grade of a reference image or clip in one click, adjusting to lighting variations and scene transitions for uniform cinematic results – all powered by Evoto's proprietary algorithms.
  
  
• Batch Processing: Edit a small section of a longer clip and then batch sync those edits to the entire clip.
  
  
• Face Recognition: Automatic face detection with tools to add missing faces, remove incorrect detections, or modify facial attributes on a per-character basis.
  
  
• Presets: Recommended presents for common portrait retouching scenarios and customizable "My Presets" that allow users to save and reapply adjustments across projects.

Evoto Video supports 4K video imports, flexible export in MP4 and MOV formats, real-time frame-by-frame previews, and trimming. The beta release of Evoto Video will be available in November. Access to the beta can be requested at video.evoto.ai.

To learn more about Evoto AI and the full suite of tools available for photographers and videographers, visit evoto.ai.

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About Evoto AI
Evoto AI develops innovative software solutions that power and streamline the workflows of professional creators. The company's core products, Evoto Desktop and Evoto for iPad, harness proprietary AI, machine learning, and advanced rendering to deliver faster edits and finer control without disrupting the creative process. Evoto continues to innovate with Evoto Instant, an end-to-end mobile workflow, Evoto Cloud Spaces, for seamless project syncing across devices and teams, and Evoto Video, a professional-grade tool for high-resolution, high-precision, and cinema-quality video retouching. Evoto is used by creators in 158 countries, ranging from small businesses and solo practitioners to large enterprises. The product was founded in 2022 by an experienced team of AI researchers and graphics engineers. It has a dedicated team based in Singapore and offices in the United States, Japan, and South Korea. For more information: www.evoto.ai/.

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